Lucky gits

The atmosphere at Wembley, and at the SOL, has been affected by a few different aspects imo.

Wembley was typical of our away support under Ross whereby the football was so cringingly timid and negative it wore people down.

A Sunderland goal was ironically like a kick in the guts because you knew what it meant.

There was such an air of inevitability that we'd pull everyone back and just keep our fingers crossed.

But the big problem was that our defence just wasn't good enough, or well enough organised, to hold out.

 

It was never the same after the height of the Roker End was reduced.

 

It was a crying shame when that happened.. It broke my heart..

 

That would be magnumificent.

 

Salford

 

The last time we had anything really worth shouting about was the Chelsea and Everton games under bsa and it was deafening. It's all circumstantial. I had a season ticket in the clockstand for a fair few years at Roker Park as a bairn and I can remember it being fairly sedentary when things were going badly then too.

 

I came up and stayed over a few days for those two games, the atmosphere in the ground was mind blowing

 

I was never that much a Roker Ender, as a kid I used to go in the Fulwell end kids enclosure. If we scored tried to run round the goal, so I could watch myself on Shoot, sunday lunchtime. When I got older I still usually used the Fulwell end as that was the first part of the ground I came to. Now I am an old sod I am an eastender

 

fingers crossed

 

Same here my reference to the roar was how it sounded from the Fulwell End back in the day, no kids enclosure then, just the fence at the back, afterwards only went in the Roker End on a handfull of occasions, and the Clock Stand now and again for reserve games. Then progressed to a season ticket in the main stand in the early 70's., in good time for the magic of 73. Never been an Eastender myself, but one side of the family did come from Coronation Street . .

 

Chelsea particularly. Everton game was done at half time really.
Both enjoyable though.

 

I still maintain that the SoL noise died when they made the stupid decision to move the away fans. Prior to that it was brill. I was sat in the north stand for the 1st few years and the atmosphere was great. The North stand is now just about dead. They moved the away fans to the roof and the acoustics up there mean that all you ever hear now are the away fans.

 

They killed the North Stand when they shifted about 12 rows of fans from the back to make room for the Black Cat Bar seating.
The North Stand was designated as the home end and the majority of the fans shifted were ex Fulwell Enders who made a hell of a lot of noise.

 

Aye, hence the reason ‘come on you reds’ stopped at corners. It was class the noise from the North Stand in the first few years.

 

It is not the ground that creates noise, but the people in it. There is no reason whatsoever that people in the North Stand don't sing and shout apart from the fact that they choose not to.